Story time I suppose (from a former colleague). Managers were looking at buying a monitoring tool for a dev team. Somehow dev lead was included in the meeting.

Story time I suppose (from a former colleague). Managers were looking at buying a monitoring tool for a dev team. Somehow dev lead was included in the meeting. Vendor comes in, does his pitch. Dev leads pulls the manager aside and tells him "we already have a monitoring tool installed called git". Non-technical manager is intrigued so dev leads pulls out a GUI front-end for git and shows the commit history. "You can see who added what to the codebase and when" "Neat. How much does it costs us?" "Nothing. It comes with the tool! How much are they trying to charge us for this monitoring software?" "They want to schedule a separate call for pricing..." We all know git metrics are pointless, apparently management was satisfied to know that they were collecting metrics and could use them if they wanted to (and they never bothered with it).